38And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
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And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, All that the LORD speaketh, that I must do?
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-41)We have here the meeting between Balak and Balaam, confederate enemies to God’s Israel; but here they seem to differ in their expectations of the success. 1. Balak speaks of it with confidence, not doubting but to gain his point now that Balaam had come. In expectation of this, he went out to meet him, even to the utmost border of his country (Num. 22:36), partly to gratify his own impatient desir…
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